On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 1:39:23 AM UTC+2, taf wrote: > On a purely technical level, this is correct, but having the Y genome will only be useful for genealogy by comparison to other people, and it is still well in the future when enough people will sequence their entire genomes for genealogical purposes to provide a sufficiently large pool that you are likely to find a 'match' with Richard III based on Y-genome sequence, while there may well already be enough people tested to find an STR match. Not sure I agree with this. Initiatives like Yfull already started years ago and showed the commercial potential. Large numbers of people have therefore already done full sequencing at "low" prices just through what was effectively an internet-organized group effort to see if it was possible. Efforts of yfull itself have moved on to interpretation. But I think they have shown that all it requires is a testing company to take up sequencing and then the data available will increase dramatically. The only problem really seems to be that the big ones were all investing in other technology in recent years, having initially fought against that change, they are stuck a bit. It is a classic business situation, which seems to be very close to a tipping point to me.